Indeed. Just this Saturday we had a yard sale and I knew I had to get up
early.

Well I couldn't get to sleep until 3am and an hour later I was wide awake
and that was all the sleep I got until the following afternoon when I was so
exhausted I had to lie down. You would think I would have slept straight
through till Sunday, but for some reason I was wide awake once again in less
than a half hour. So tiredness is not a 24/7 thing but it is a frequent
thing and when I get excessively tired at an inopportune time not even
coffee does the trick.

Someone here recommended Siberian Ginseng (not a true ginseng but
botanically similar) and I think it helps some but it also makes me nausous.

Well, at least it doesn't require a prescription, but once upon a time I had
a wonderful psychiatrist who let me see if dexadrine would help and it
worked wonders, positive wonders, but unforunately we moved out of state,
too far away to see him again, and after we moved no other doctor would
prescribe dexadrine for me no matter how hard I tried to make a convincing
argument it was the best thing for me --- apparentally the fact another
doctor thought it was okay for me meant squat to the others. Why oh why is
all the best stuff illegal except by prescription?

When you have an IQ over 125 you should be smart enough to know what is good
for you and what isn't, right? Mine is above 125 but I picked such a low
number just so people won't say I'm an idiot; regardless -- this has
happened even when I spouted off the correct score, accused of being an
idiot or a troll. Of course I am willing to admit it is not always high. It
depends on how alert I am, how much I'm in the mood to be tested, and so on.
But, even so, I have read a few pharmacology textbooks and it never crossed
my mind that there was anything particularly hazardous about dexadrine, not
unless you find yourself eventually craving benzedrine, or even methadrine.

I think a lot of doctors just want to act like I'm almighty and you're not;
or you'd be the same as me if you wanted to keep your DEA license. Well,
duh, who pays the DEA anyway and what good to they do? They have half the
doctors in America scared to give cancer patients enough morphine to ease
their pain, and if the patients are terminal anyway like how could it matter
if they became addicted? For one thing they probably wouldn't become
addicted because they say it's different when you really need it, but just
suppose they did become addicted; if they're terminal why should anyone
care --- the only issue is whether they're free from pain.

So what kind of government are we paying for if the DEA has so much power
they have terrified doctors to the point where they cannot do their jobs
effectively or THINK they cannot do their jobs effectively, which, for a
patient, is no different at all because you're still in pain if you aren't
getting enough of the right painkiller. Is this STILL a Christian thing? I
mean like it's a sin to feel too good. It's unpious, unholy, Puritanical,
Victorian, neanderthal, or just stupid or barbaric to see a fellow human in
pain, have the power to do something about it, and do nothing out of fear of
losing your license.

If Hebrew people can lobby for the US to remain a strong presence in the
Middle East, why can't sick people lobby for the rights of physicians to
prescribe what patients need without fearing the government will take away
their license? It just doesn't make sense to me, just as it doesn't make
sense to a lot of parents that the war has claimed thousands of lives, many
thousands of lives it you count every nation involved either by consent or
coercion.

Sure nobody wants to see anyone use any weapons of mass destruction, but if
I recall correctly isn't there only one nation that has ever used them in
wartime and only one nation that has more stockpiled than any other nation.

Let us pray that if the other side was able to use our own aircraft against
us they don't find a way to use our own "defense" armaments against us as
well. Lets reflect on the karma here and decide if there aren't better ways
to resolve man hatred of other men, physicians fears of the DEA, the belief
that all that is was not an accident, and now I shutta my big fat mouth cuz
I speaka long enuffa.  Your turn.  : - )

My biggest problem is laziness. A little pick-me-upper just motivates me
enough to get going, Coffee is a very poor second drug of choice.

With coffee as popular as it is, with energy drinks like Red Bull and
Monster growing more popular by the day, why don't pharmacy companies work
to create a new drug that works better than caffeine but one which the FDA
will still allow to be sold OTC and added to soft drinks and such. It is
obvious there is a demand for it.